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7p.m. 9.00am. Mon 11th Mar — Teresa Naughton

EDENDERRY—WEEKEND MASS Sunday READERS 10a.m. & 11:30am 7pm. Sat 16th Mar – Philip Brady & Eddie Kelliher 10am. Sun 17th Mar - Sean Fitzgerald & Eugene O’Brien Vincent de Paul 11:30am. Sun 17th Mar – Liz Rickard & Rita Evans 087 3131844 EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS

7pm. Sat 16th Mar - Emma Dalton, Teresa Farrell, Therese Lowry, Tina Norman, Frances & Leighlin Judge Website.. 10am. Sun 17th – Mary Hanly, Marian O’Donoghue, Noel Brady, Colette Staunton, Ger www.kandle.ie Kearney. 11:30am: Sun 17th Mar – Colette Burke, Colissa Halligan, Mary Finnegan, Karin Abbott, Mary Fay. Community Notices Some helpful Services:

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8.30pm. All welcome, bring a few friends to a great night out Grow: grow.ie or Tel: 1890 474 474 EDENDERRY CCE NOTES MUSIC CLASSES: Classes continue every Tuesday evening up to the end of April in the Boys School 6-8pm LetSomeoneKnow: letsomeoneknow.ie

SET DANCING: Classes take place every Thursday evening in the Teenline Ireland: teenline.ie Boy’s School @ 8.30pm. For more info on both classes please contact Mary Hanley, Bill Foley or our Face Book Page (Edenderry Samaritans: Samaritans.org or 1850 60 90 60 Comhaltas) RECENT OFFALY FLEADH FUND RAISERS: Edenderry CCE 1Life: Tel: 1800 247 100 or text HELP to 51444 & Rhode CCE would like to thank Killeen’s of Rhode, Dunne’s

Stores Edenderry & St Mary’s Primary School for the use of their venues for recent fundraisers. Thanks to everyone who attended and (HSE: Josephine Rigney (057 932 7909) supported our TABLE QUIZ in Killeen’s, BAG PACKING in Resource Officer for Suicide Prevention). Dunne’s Stores and Our Concert in St Marys Primary School. A fantastic night of music, song, dance and fun was had by all at our concert. A huge thanks to all of the very talented artists who gave their time to perform on the night. MARCH SEISIUN: The next seisiun will be held in O We would like to Congratulate ’Donoghue’s on Thursday 21st March Fiadnaith Kane & Cathal Gorman who have entered the Sacrament of Marriage recently. May they have a long and happy life 36 Views of " Exhibition in Croghan Community together. Centre 17th & 18th March A new exhibition of photographs called "36 Views of Croghan Hill" by Veronica Nicholson will be Edenderry Medjugorje Group: will have a trip to Medjugorje exhibited in Croghan Community Centre to coincide with St Patrick's day. The 36 photographs feature the people and on 06/05/2019 7 nights half board.€699 PPS.inc ins. landscapes of North Offaly including Croghan, , Rhode, Limited places available. Contact Pat 087 2330862 or Patsy Edenderry & Kilclonfert, all with a view of Croghan Hill in the 046 9553311. Joe Walsh Tour Operated. background, and were inspired by Hokusai's '36 Views of Mount Fuji.' The exhibition is supported by Croghan Community Group Many of life’s failures are people who did not and . Veronica lives in Rhode and her book realise how close they were to success when they 'Observing Offaly' was published in 2016. gave up

OUR PRAYERS ARE ASKED FOR: Baptism: Please note that if your child is to be baptised Philomena O’ Callaghan, nee Connolly during or after April this year, you will need to attend the Carrick Rd, Edenderry baptism preparation evening, on the last Monday of the

Michael Nolan, Fr Paul Murphy St, Edenderry previous month. Therefore for baptisms in April the preparation evening is on Monday 25th March @ 8pm in the Parish Centre. Any queries contact Deacon Paul Wyer May they Rest in Peace. @ 086-6086154 Our Sympathy to their families

MASSES FOR THE COMING WEEK Saturday 7pm: Tommy Young; John Knight; George & Annie Hackett; Maurice Murrin; Sally & Wally Pigott; Maura Byrne; Patrick Connell; Margaret Davy Sunday 10am: Paddy & Gretta Manley; Davy O’ Boyle; Mabel O’ Boyle; Sunday 11:30am: Willaim Kilduff, 1st Anniversary; Matthew, Henrietta, Kathleen, Patrick & Oliver Gilligan; Elizabeth Coakley; Michael O’Callaghan

Monday 9am: We Pray for the following whose Anniversary occurs Tuesday 9am: around this time.

Wednesday 9am: Thursday 9am: Tom Dempsey Friday 9am: Mass card Intentions William Kilduff Patrick Connell Saturday 7pm: Pat & Kathleen McGrath; Phylis Usher; Nora Granahan; Maddie & Sean Donoghue Willie Hickey Sonny Kelly St Patrick’s Day Sunday 10am: Bill & May Kelly; Bee Collins Bernard & Lena Foran St Patrick’s Day Sunday 11:30am: Eileen Groome; Mary Seery Carmel & Paddy Slevin John & Ann Hanly Elizabeth O’Connor

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Word Search Priest: The Lord be with you from the heart you are made righteous; by confessing People: And with your Spirit with your lips you are saved. When scripture says: those who believe in him will have no cause for PENITENTIAL ACT I confess to almighty God and shame, it makes no distinction between Jew and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly Greek: all belong to the same Lord who is rich sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I enough, however many ask for his help, for everyone have done and in what I have failed to do, through who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved my fault, through my fault, through my most The word of the Lord grievous fault; therefore I ask blessed Mary, ever-Virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and you, my GOSPEL ACCLAMATION brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our Praise to you, O Christ, king of eternal glory! We do God. not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God. Praise to you, O Christ, king OPENING PRAYER of eternal glory! Father, through our observance of Lent, help us to understand the meaning of your Son’s THE GOSPEL (4:1-13) death and resurrection, and teach us to reflect Priest: The Lord be with you People: And with your Spirit it in our lives. Grant this through Christ our A reading from the Gospel according to Luke. Lord. Amen. Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit through the wilderness, being FIRST READING (26:4-10) tempted there by the devil for forty days. During that A reading from the book of Deuteronomy. time he ate nothing and at the end he was hungry. Moses said to the people: ‘The priest shall take the Then the devil said to him, ‘If you are the Son of God, pannier from your hand and lay it before the altar of tell this stone to turn into a loaf. ‘But Jesus replied, the Lord your God. Then, in the sight of the Lord ‘Scripture says: Man does not live on bread alone.’ your God, you must make this pronouncement: ‘My Then leading him to a height, the devil showed him in father was a wandering Aramaean, He went down a moment of time all the kingdoms of the world and into Egypt to find refuge there, few in numbers; but said to him, ‘I will give you all this power and the there he became a nation, great, mighty, and glory of these kingdoms, for it has been committed to strong. The Egyptians ill-treated us, they gave us no me and I give it to anyone I choose. Worship me, peace and inflicted harsh slavery on us. But we then, and it shall all be yours, ‘But Jesus answered called on the Lord, the God of our fathers. The Lord him. ‘Scripture says: You must worship the Lord your heard our voice and saw our misery, our toil and our God. And serve him alone. Then he led him to oppression; and the Lord brought us out of Egypt Jerusalem and made him stand on the parapet of the with mighty hand and outstretched arm, with great Temple, ‘If you are the Son of God, he said to him terror, and with signs and wonders. He brought us ’throw your self down from here, for scripture says; here and gave us this land, a land where milk and He will put his angles in charge of you to guard you, honey flow. Here then I bring the first-fruits of the and again: They will hold you up on their hands in produce of the soil that you, Lord, have given me.” case you hurt your foot against a stone. But Jesus You must then lay them before the Lord your God, answered him, ‘It has been said: You must not put the and bow down in the sight of the Lord your God. Lord your God to the test.’ Having exhausted all these The word of the Lord. ways of tempting him, the devil left him.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM: Priest: The Gospel of the Lord People: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ Be with me, O Lord, in my distress. Response:

1. He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High PRAYER OVER THE OFFERINGS and abides in the shade of the Almighty says to the Lord, make us worthy to bring you these gifts. May Lord: ‘My refuge, my stronghold, my God in whom I this sacrifice help to change our lives. We ask this in trust.’. Response the name of Jesus the Lord.

2. Upon you no evil shall fall, no plague approach where you dwell. For you has commanded his P RAYER AFTER COMMUNION angels to keep you in all your ways. Response Father, you increase our faith and hope, you deepen our love in this communion. Help us to live by your 3. His love he set on me, so I will rescue him; words and to seek Christ, our bread of life, who is protect him for he knows my name. When he calls I Lord forever and ever. shall answer: “I am with you.” I will save him in distress and give him glory. Response

SECOND READING A reading from St Paul’s letter to the Romans. Scripture says: The word, that is the faith we proclaim, is very near to you, it is on your lips and in your heart. If your lips confess that Jesus is Lord and if you believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, then you will be saved. By believing